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    Making Our Home Child-Friendly

    Henry – Crawling? from SaraMattHossHop-singClemHenry on Vimeo.Whoa, Nelly! Henry is essentially crawling!

    I say “essentially” because–as you can see from the video–he’s not officially crawling. But he is certainly able to get himself from Point A to Point B in a pretty quick fashion.

    It’s time to make sure our house is completely child-friendly. I like that phrase better than “child-proof.” We want our house to be a welcoming place for every family member (except the chickens are not welcome unless they opt to wear diapers, which they would hate!).

    We didn’t do this earlier because we honestly thought we would be living in a new house by the

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    Join Us! Health & Wellness Internet Community


    Before I start this post about health and wellness, I have to confess that I have eaten 4.5 large cupcakes, a piece of cake, a bag of donut holes, and countless homemade chocolate chip cookies (plus lots of dough, of course) in the past week. I eat when I’m stressed, tired, and/or bored–all of which I’ve been feeling a little of lately.

    So when I read my internet friend Jennie’s post about her health and wellness goals for August, I thought, “Yes! I need to jump on the health and wellness bandwagon!”

    You see, I always believed the idea that it “takes nine months to put on baby weight,” so

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    Happy Birthday, Henry!



    Dearest Henry,

    You turned five months on July 28. Five months! I can’t believe we’re almost at half a year. I haven’t written since June 12, so we have a lot to catch up on.

    In June, you finally stopped taking naps in the Moby. Up until then, you were taking five naps a day in that thing! It drove your dad and me crazy at times, but we knew it would be short-lived, so we tried to savor our opportunity to be so close to you so consistently.

    Your absolute favorite thing in the world right now is Hoss. He makes you smile and immediately commandeers your attention, no

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